Saturday, July 17, 2004

going to Musashi-Urawa

Today I woke up early like usual because I have no curtains. I didn't do much during the day, but cleaning up and finishing unpacking. My room is quite nice now. I really am starting to feel like I live here now. It's a very comfortable feeling to have. Especially since it's nice and that that expensive. I tend to wake up and start by going on the internet to chat. I check my e-mail and then look for something to do. I had pork mayonaise at TTki's house. Then I came back and did some more stuff to kill time. We had to move some tables back to the other house and I got two smaller tables.

I was supposed to leave at 3pm but didn't leave until 3:30pm to meet my friend CNto. I hadn't taken the Shonan-Shinjyku line before so I didn't know I had to get off at Nishi-oi station and to transfer to another. But I learned it only after making one stop so it wasn't too bad. I finally made it to Shinjyuku station at 5pm, but I couldn't find my friend until 5:15 because it's a big busy train station. It was fun trying to find it though. We found each other and then we took another train to Musashi-Urawa where we met with my friend's Teacher and another student.

They aren't dating...at least that's what I think. It was fun. We had dinner at Jonathon's and I had lasanga, that's probably not how you spell it though. It was good and didn't upset my stomach which all the foods in Japan has done to me. By 9:30 we called it a night and decided to go home. When We got back to Shinjyuku station, I learned that I didn't have a train that went back to Totsuka station. So me and my friend had to be inventive to find another route back to the station. I took the Yamanote line to Shinagawa station, and then the tokaido line to Totsuka. I jumped on the last bus to get to near my house. I'm surprised that I made it without that many problems.

I have to learn some Japanese and figure out how to get from place to place. It's a struggle for sure. But I'm getting there. I made it home about 12:30am. I took a shower and was planning to write this entry, but died and didn't wake up until 5am this morning. Because again...curtains. I'll write more tonight.